Monday+Morning+Leadership

Neither blamers nor passengers be...
 * [|It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.]” ||
 * [[image:http://thinkexist.com/i/sq/as0.gif width="11" height="9" align="middle"]] [|Josiah Charles Stamp quotes] ([|English] [|Economist] President of the Bank of England in the 1920's and the 2nd richest man in Great Britain, 1880-[|1941]) ||

The fundamentals of management or leadership, behaviors, attitudes, and responses that are blurred in the duststorm of everyday life, (of course that is assuming we saw them clearly through all the dust we kicked up in the first place.) "To accept total responsibility in order to be able to put plans in place to accomplish their goals. A real leader devotes himself to fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame. “When you assign blame, you focus on the past. When you accept responsibility, you focus on the future.” Leaders are learners and teachers. I cannot help but remember the quote by Mark Twain "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." When you are looking through the eyes of a leader, and you realize the responsibility is on your shoulders..you see things you couldn't possibly care to know any other way.

The buzzard of responsibility will come to alight on your shoulders..Dr Jim Buntin

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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. [|Mark Twain] When you are the driver you see things the passenger has no responsibility to see.....the being given responsibility and taking responsibility are two entirely different things..

I love the story from Ferrell Sams' autobiographical book, //Run With the Horsemen.// When Dr. Sams was a little boy the whole family would gather at his grandmother's house every Sunday afternoon for dinner. After church Grandmother would come home, put on her apron and in 2 hours the table would be full of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, collards. Daughters-in-law would bring side dishes. About fifteen minutes before dinner Cousin Will and his wife would drive up and roll out to eat dinner. Everybody in the family knew Will was allergic to work, but that didn't faze him or his wife. They would drive up, shake hands, eat the best parts of everything, hang around to chat. They never brought any food, they never helped with the dishes and they were the first to leave, always taking home a paper sack with a "bite for supper." They had no idea they were the family joke and the only reason they were allowed to keep their routine up is because //Grandmother said they were family. We can relate to the scene I just mentioned, and probably cite times that we have watched this scenario unfold inside a faculty. That 20-80 rule that exists inside any orgainized..(or disorganized) group. The Cousin Wills RNOTUS.//